A SSD has limit of writing for each cell. It has shorter time of life, and all updates installation will speed it up.

The write-problem is not a problem that you can take seriously. You have between 10,000 and 100,000 writes per sector. Please do the math here. It's unlikely that you'd write that often in a single sector. This problem is further negated by the controller that will scatter the writes to the same logical sector to different physical sectors, each time data is written. Even if you're running a huge database application on it, 24/7 in a busy server, it's not a problem. Maybe a dozen sectors will go 'bad' and the controller will avoid them, even further marginalizing the problem.

If SSDs fail (and yes, they do) it's more likely to be caused by a crappy controller than due to bad sectors.

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That's why you add a HDD for additional data storage. If you have a 64GB SSD, it makes no sense to fill it 99% with movies: it's too small for normal use. As a result, people won't use it for that, problem solved - no 'sector write problem' either.

Anyway, back to bashing Flash.

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The thing is, I want to update Flash, because it's almost always updated for security reasons. I just want to be able to tell the damn thing to update silently like other well-behaved software, but their lawyers got into their heads that the user has to accept their EULA every single time. Actually I think their advertising department did, they figured it'd make sure to remind people every day "HEY YOU'RE RUNNING ADOBE FLASH AND WE'RE LOOKING OUT FOR YOU AREN'T WE SO GREAT". Now it's finally dawned on them that people are only equating Flash with obtrusive annoying updates as a result.

Actually I think their advertising department did, they figured it'd make sure to remind people every day "HEY YOU'RE RUNNING ADOBE FLASH AND WE'RE LOOKING OUT FOR YOU AREN'T WE SO GREAT". Now it's finally dawned on them that people are only equating Flash with obtrusive annoying updates as a result.

Java suffers from this even more. A system tray icon is displayed every single time an applet is run! to make matters worse a new system tray icon is created for every applet that is run. Not forgetting the massive Java logo that appears by default on every applet making sure that the user knows that they are running a Java applet.

You even get a balloon bubble every time an applet is run after an update saying "hey look you are using java go to java.com", really don't get that, you already have it installed, there is hardly anything on that site other than instructions on how to install it again.

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